xiii, 343 pages ; 25 cm

"Many textbooks focus on the administrative or personnel management side of human resource management, ignoring its strategic importance. Strategic Human Resource Management combines the conventional personnel elements of HRM with wider aspects of strategic management, focusing on the integration of business strategy and HRM, helping you to understand the complexities involved in successfully uniting these business disciplines to achieve competitive advantage."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Introduction -- 2. Key factors in strategic human resource management -- 3. Strategic human resource management: a source of competitive advantage -- 4. Strategic human resource planning -- 5. Strategic staffing: recruitment and selection strategies -- 6. Strategic human resource development -- 7. The appraisal system as a strategic control -- 8. Strategies for maintaining human resources -- 9. Effectiveness of HR strategists in the wider context of change -- 10. Strategic human resource management in transitional and emerging economies -- 11. Strategic human resource management and learning organisations -- 12. Contemporary issues in strategic human resource management

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